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My First Gargoyle Fan Art!

 Stone the Gargoyle by Shawn Rollness

Stone the Gargoyle was drawn freehand in pencil on notebook paper. The inspiration for Stone came from this photo:

Shawn, who is ten years old, saw the photo when his mom, Kristyn was looking at the Stone the Gargoyle knitting pattern. He got to work drawing Stone, and once it was done, he asked his mom to send me a picture of it.

Thank you, Shawn! I love it!

Shawn's original artwork is currently displayed on his kitchen refrigerator with both rainbow and...

Oh, yeeah! Release day is here!

Let the trumpets sound! Release Day is here!

MAGIC ON THE LINE is officially out today!

If you want a chance to score a signed copy of MAGIC ON THE LINE…

…and a signed copy of book six MAGIC ON THE HUNT (which came out last April)…

…then head on over to the Deadline Dames, where I'm doing a giveaway!

If you want to know what I'm doing today (besides posting on blogs and driving hither and yon to take care of errands) I am working on copy edits for MAGIC WITHOUT MERCY, which is book 8 in the...

And an Excerpt Makes Three…

FIRST, thank you to everyone who left a comment on my post about angry reviews and this blog being my happy place.  I appreciate that I'm not the only person who likes a No Anger Zone, and it was really sweet of you all to leave such nice comments about the post and my books too.

You have made my blog an extra happy place!  Rock on!

SECOND, MAGIC ON THE LINE comes out tomorrow.  But there are rumors that it has shown up in bookstores over the weekend.  It is possible the book is being read...

This IS my happy place

[image error]Here's the thing.  This is my blog.  I pay to keep it on the internet.  (If you're reading this on Facebook, Livejournal or Goodreads…those are mirrored from my original posts which always begin and will always remain on my blog.)

My blog is my little corner in this big wide internet sky. I post silly knitting pictures, talk about my writing life, put up excerpts from my books, and really do anything else that suits my fancy.

For fun.

You are welcome to come on my blog and leave a comment–as a m...

This IS My Normal

Book coming out in a week? Check.

Stress knitting late at night? Check.

Wild-eyed writer in a candy corn hat the next morning? Roger that.

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Much thanks to Sarah Sagaser (skeins & beans) for her amazing candy corn knit hat pattern! Knit it up in 3 hours flat.

It's Called "Priorities", duh

Do I have a metric ton of things I should be doing right now? Oh, heck yes.   My inbox still isn't under control, I owe blog posts to various wonderful people, have a book to outline (the final Allie Beckstrom!) and write, AND copy edits for MAGIC WITHOUT MERCY (which comes out April 2012) just landed with a thump on my desk.

Am I doing any of those things?  No.  What am I doing?  This:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, yeah!  That's right! I knitted myself a finger-mustache!  Who has a Halloween costume?  This...

Five Secrets

Every book has back stories and false starts and things that never make it onto the page.  I'm always fascinated when authors talk about the choices they make while writing their books, and love finding out about things they cut out.

I know a few secret things about the Allie Beckstrom books that I've never told anyone.  Until today.  'Cause I'm sharing them.

1. Allie didn't like high school, but she actually had a good time in college…even though she can't remember most of it.

2.  Zayvion...

Magic on the Line – Snippet

I had a great weekend catching up on things that have slid by over the last few months while I was working on TIN SWIFT.  I even (gasp!) attempted to catch up to emails and mailed out books!

If I owe you a reply to an email, and you don't hear from me in the next day or so, please (please) drop me a line.  My spam filter has been overzealous and I think I may have lost an email or two.

And now…to start the week off, it's time for a snippet from MAGIC ON THE LINE!

With Shame. Of course.

Shame...

Winners! Magic on the Line

In honor of MAGIC TO THE BONE being released in the UK just one week ago, I am over on Amazon's Kindle Post talking about Allie and the gang.  If you haven't heard where the idea for the books came from, or why these books almost weren't books, then click on over and check it out!

 

And now….for the winners of MAGIC ON THE LINE!  Ye old number generator has spoken.  The winners are:

1. minhchieu – who said:  Can't wait to finnaly read this one!

2. Nikki D – who said: Oh pick me…pick me!!!...

Magic on the Line Giveaway

MAGIC ON THE LINE will be out on November 1st–just two weeks away!

I am so excited for this book to hit the shelves because it is book 7 of the 9 book series. Why is that exciting?  Well, I tend to look at the series as one long story with each book telling a little part of that story.  But I also see every three books acting like their own little trilogy.  Every three books, a bigger part of that long story is opened up, and we see Allie's world in a whole new light.

For me, MAGIC ON THE...